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The two leading causes of death in humans are cancer and heart disease.

Scientists typically think of these as separate diseases.

But in his 2021 talk from Ted X Vienna, cardiologist Nicholas Leeper makes the case that these

diseases actually have a lot of overlap.

And says, if we reframe our thinking and treat them as similar, that might hold promise

to bring down the mortality caused by both.

That's after the break.

Hey, I'm Dr. Jen Gunter, host of a podcast from Ted called Body Stuff.

On this show, I debunk medical myths and explore some of the body's most fascinating mysteries.

Next up, how does vaccine testing work?

Even after you introduce the vaccines, we have to follow them for years and years and years.

This is in fact a continuous ongoing process.

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In two decades of practicing medicine, I've encountered a wide number of medical diagnoses.

You see, it turns out that there are more than 60,000 different medical diagnoses that

you can list on a patient's chart.

You can actually be diagnosed with a burn injury when your water skis catch on fire.

There are also codes if you need surgery after being bitten by a pig, hit by a spacecraft,

stabbed while crocheting, or my favorite, due to extreme problems with your in-laws.

But the best of all has got to be the code for getting sucked into a jet engine.

And the reason that I like this one is because this is not the code for the first time this

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